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From: "Brian Macy" <bmacy AT sunshinecomputing DOT com>
To: "Greg Miller" <gmiller AT classic-games DOT com>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: libc and crt support...
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:28:28 -0800
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> > vsnprintf would be a very useful function to have in newlib, but it
> > doesn't exist there; however, vsprintf/vfprintf/etc do exist and you
> > should be able to use those instead. Or, get a free version off the net
> > and add it to your port library.
>
> For that matter, why would you even need such a function? Give me a
> string stream any day.

Because streams make anything besides trivial formatting absolutely hideous.

Brian Macy


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